“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.” - Gandalf

Read the Article: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-02-03/you-dont-miss-what-doesnt-exist/

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"Herman and Josh laid out an economic worldview and set of policies that made sense in a world beset by all sorts of environmental and social problems. I wanted in...and managed a startup nonprofit dedicated to spreading Herman’s ideas about the steady-state economy – a sustainable and fair economy that is right-sized for the ecosystems that contain it."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-08-20/going-steady-with-herman-daly-a-new-podcast-series/

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This is the problem with #growth as a political objective in #UKPolitics We have done our growing over 200 years. We now need to spread the results of that growth fairly. We have no further room to grow. Countries in the global south need to grow and we need to implement a #SteadyStateEconomy in the face of #ClimateChange

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A revealing article on the headwinds facing the transition to #sustainable #green-energy.
From the article:

1. #Wind and #solar stocks are declining due to higher costs of raw materials and slow supply response.
2. #EV chargers and copper mining, critical for the energy transition, face demand uncertainties and reluctance in investment, and
3. Despite government subsidies, #renewable energy sectors struggle with high costs and interest rates, indicating a slower and more expensive transition than anticipated.

This is the problem with entrusting matters of such dire importance to #capitalism -- especially in an age of resource scarcity. As I say in my pinned toot:

**Capitalism is little more than an ideological hangover produced from a time long past when low hanging fruit was everywhere for the taking and people thought it would never disappear.**

That quote has deeper context than most suspect. I penned it years ago shortly out of law school after taking a Wildlife Law class from the, now deceased, Professor Dale Goble. He literally wrote the book on the #EndangeredSpecies Act. There he introduced me to the reason species have, historically, been driven to #extinction -- new technology + capitalist opportunism:

Gun powder killed the mega-predators. Whales? Spear gun. Passenger pigeon? Net guns. I could go on. But then we invented the petroleum economy, and in the opportunistic race for economic growth the decline has quickened by means of the collateral damage caused by #habitat degradation. Which, brings me to my point ---

The ideology that is capitalism was built around gluts. It cannot exist without low hanging fruit to fuel the #consumption #orgy necessary to get past the bottleneck of widespread consumer adoption. We are seeing the problem in stark outline today. Without #monopoly in the resource extraction sector, generating the necessary momentum to survive the capitalist "valley of death" is nearly impossible.

I conclude, there must first be an ideological transition away from the hangover that is capitalism, if we ever want to transition sustainable green-energy. **The fruit is gone, folks. If we ever want it back, capitalism won’t take us there**
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https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/has-the-energy-transition-hit-a-wall.html